The avocado cover is pointless but at least there's some nice color interaction going on. Instead I nominate Vs. Is there anything less pleasant than an angry sheep, wire fence, and gloomy overcast day in black and white? It's a shame because Vs. is a damn fine album.

A lot of the problem with the recent Sonic's is down to bad management. I look at Sonic Boom and Sonic 07 and see a ton of ideas and just unfinished games. They'd improve greatly if the project lead was absolutely ruthless with cutting parts of the game that didn't work or they didn't have time for (I'm looking at…

Looks like a Lannister always pays her debts.

I read Tyene's display as part of her reveal of Bronn's poisoning. At the start of the scene Bronn appears fine, it's only when Tyene get's Bronn's blood pumping that the poison really starts to take hold. By forcing Bronn to recant his declaration of the most beautiful woman, she's showing Bronn just how much…

But on the other hand, with Ramsey on the outs with the Boltons thanks to his new brother, giving birth to a rightful heir to Winterfell would eliminate whatever position he has left. Ramsey strikes me as one who prefers to rule by fear rather than marital legitimacy and what better way to strike fear in the north…

For repercussions for the rape scene, I feel like this season has spent an inordinate amount of time discussing the fate of bearing a child to a Bolton—what with Ramsey (another child of rape) nearly skewered in his infancy and Myranda's ominous declaration that pregnancy is boring. It seems like a given that Sansa…

Not cancelled, but if I could wish for a non-existent game I'd wish for the version of 3D Sonic I have in my head. Despite popular opinion, the 2D Sonic games are NOT all about speed, but about splashing around a playground of ramps and loops unlocking secrets and collecting items. In short, they'd be perfect as an…

Ermagerd, did you say Hum?

I cannot and will not ever like this song and my dislike for this song only increased each of the three times every hour it was played on the radio back in the day. The songwriting is boring, the lyrics don't make sense (but also don't contribute to the song like say The Pixies), the lead singer sort of looks like a…

Hey, take your goblin studies degree and get back to serving tables.

Is no one going to say anything about Budwiser's dreadful Proclaimers cover? Seriously, did they just call Gary Jules and ask him if he could do that thing he did with Mad World to I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)?

As someone who's recently accepted the B52's as a good band and not just a good novelty band, the only really fucking terrible from Kate Pierson is her work in NiNA. It's this collaboration with a super famous Japanese artist named YUKI that is absolutely the most uninteresting album I've ever heard. That YUKI's…

Zero Wing is a thoroughly average shooter. I made it through the first 5 levels and nothing really stuck out, but then again I'm not the biggest horizontal shooter fan either (Raiden-style vertical shooters are more my thing). I find myself pulling up the youtube playlist of its soundtrack fairly often however.

Not exactly a bad game, but Dynasty Warriors 2 did incongruous wonders pairing a classical Chinese setting to heavenly wanky power metal soundtrack.

Actually, I think this is part of a greater trend in grunge/90s era videos to tend towards the post apocalyptic. Many videos have this vibe of sifting this decaying (grungy) relic of some good old past. Look, here's Lisa Loeb in the remains of a New York flat, there's Stone Temple Pilots on a bombed out Cadillac in…

"I think the album resonated because in fall 1994, people had grown tired of the depressing pall hovering over music and wanted something different. Even before Kurt Cobain’s suicide earlier that year, grunge’s angst was starting to wear thin."

Three words, Brazil.

I've been rocking this pretty awesome 80s web station which introduced me to the song I'll nominate, Scandal's "The Warrior."

Can I flag this as awesome?